BBC History Magazine - 2021-02-18

• Rob Attar Editor
• Winning the western front
• Edgar AEtheling
• Appraising our ancestors
• Crusading queens
• Books Sathnam Sanghera uncovers the far-reaching yet often unnoticed legacy of imperialis­m in modern Britain
• Michael Wood on the dawn of global history writing
• Q&A Your history questions answered
• Behind the news: The Capitol riots
• New history books reviewed
• Prize crossword
• Anniversar­ies
• The write profile
• Working together today to save lives tomorrow
• Napoleon boldly returns to France
• The Kronstadt mutiny is brutally crushed by Red Army troops
• Labour receives a vote of no confidence
• When and how did Timbuktu become shorthand for “somewhere very far away”?
• 1 The push and pull of migration
• 3 Location, location, location
• 4 Women on the move
• 6 Internatio­nal killers
• WHEN TUDOR WAS A NAME OF SHAME
• “France’s wars of religion left hundreds of thousands murdered, tortured, exiled or imprisoned”
• “Had Adolf Hitler never lived, the shape of today’s world would certainly look very different”
• Blighted by disease
• Behind the legend
• Journey to power
• “You’re Dead to Me is different because we try to raise the level up to academic standards”

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